New Riders have published "Designing SVG Web Graphics," by Andrew Watt;
version 0.24 of the GNOME SVG editor, Sodipodi, has been released.

Watt's book (Amazon link) is
a introduction to the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics language, with many
examples. The target audience is web designers, not just programmers.

Sodipodi is a vector graphics editor using SVG as its native format. Still
in early stage development, it is designed for the GNOME desktop for POSIX
systems. There are many changes in the latest release, some highlights of
which are listed here:

Correctly load Illustrator-exported SVG

Automatic backups

User interface improvements: better color pickers, gradient dialogs

Base64 inline image support

Sodipodi is licensed under the GNU GPL, and is available from SourceForge
(source and RPMs) or packaged in Debian unstable.